Amit Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=tree
> Probably can't import xz into base as parts of xz are GPL v3.

Actually all the interesting parts of xz are in the public domain.

The details are laid out in COPYING.
The GPLv3 part refers to pieces of the autoconf build infrastructure
and is probably wrong, but I can't blame the author for being careful
and not bothering to disentangle the GNU mess.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]

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